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  2. Early Indian epigraphy - Wikipedia

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    The earliest undisputed deciphered epigraphy found in the Indian subcontinent are the Edicts of Ashoka of the 3rd century BCE, in the Brahmi script. If epigraphy of proto-writing is included, undeciphered markings with symbol systems that may or may not contain linguistic information, there is substantially older epigraphy in the Indus script ...

  3. History of writing - Wikipedia

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    The history of writing traces the development of writing systems [1] and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing prefigures various social and psychological consequences associated with literacy and literary culture. Each historical invention of writing emerged from systems of proto-writing that ...

  4. Ancient scripts of the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    India in 250BC. Ancient Indian scripts have been used in the history of the Indian subcontinent as writing systems. The Indian subcontinent consists of various separate linguistic communities, each of which share a common language and culture. The people of the ancient India wrote in many scripts which largely have common roots.

  5. Sanskrit - Wikipedia

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    The early history of writing Sanskrit and other languages in ancient India is a problematic topic despite a century of scholarship, states Richard Salomon – an epigraphist and Indologist specializing in Sanskrit and Pali literature. [269]

  6. Indian English literature - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Indian English literature (IEL), also referred to as Indian Writing in English (IWE), is the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language but whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. Its early history began with the works of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio and Michael Madhusudan ...

  7. Brahmic scripts - Wikipedia

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    History. Brahmic scripts descended from the Brahmi script. Brahmi is clearly attested from the 3rd century BCE during the reign of Ashoka, who used the script for imperial edicts. Northern Brahmi gave rise to the Gupta script during the Gupta period, which in turn diversified into a number of cursives during the medieval period.

  8. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    History. Devanāgarī is part of the Brahmic family of scripts of India, Nepal, Tibet, and Southeast Asia. [25][26] It is a descendant of the 3rd century BCE Brāhmī script, which evolved into the Nagari script which in turn gave birth to Devanāgarī and Nandināgarī. Devanāgarī has been widely adopted across India and Nepal to write ...

  9. Indian literature - Wikipedia

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    The history of Meitei literature can be traced back to thousands of years with the flourish of Meitei civilization. Khamba Thoibi Sheireng ( Meitei for 'Epic of Khamba Thoibi '), the third longest Indian epic poem , next to the Mahabharata and the Ramayana , is a Meitei epic poem , based on the classic tale of Khamba and Thoibi , [ 42 ] having ...